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Life-long positions, like some judges?! There is no excuse for 40 years of Ted Kennedy!! A real statesman and calming voice of reason?! States are stuck with old-timers no longer able to serve or contribute because the machine of party politics can keep them in. I look at Joe Biden and others and I find myself desperate for term limits of some kind.

You're right, there is no excuse for 40 years of Ted Kennedy (and in the days of when MA was still a 2-party state (until the '50s), he would've been sent packing in the past). I was just attempting to point out the potential downside to term limits (we have a term-limited Metro Council here in Nashville, and while it dumped the Geritol-set from it, it only replaced them with younger (and even more clueless) buffoons. The Council was supposed to serve as a strong counter to the Mayor (one mayor called them "40 jealous whores"), but now they can scarcely run a meeting in a coherent fashion, let alone challenge the Mayor. I probably could support term limits at the national level (though not 6 years, more like 18 (9 House terms, 3 Senate)), since that sounds like a good number. I wish you luck in ridding Joe Biden, but someone should've flogged Pete DuPont for not taking him out when he was term-limited out of the Governor's office in 1984.